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Conn. Bar to Host Naked Karaoke Contest

BERLIN, Conn. - After a yearlong fight with the town, a bar is going ahead with a plan to have patrons belt out ballads in the buff. On Saturday night, the Berlin Station Cafe is scheduled to hold its controversial "Naked Karaoke" event.

The bar has been under fire ever since co-owner Marty St. Pierre put up a fake sign advertising the event as a joke more than a year ago. The establishment's neighbors called Town Hall to complain, and St. Pierre was told he could face fines or arrest if he operated the naked musical performance without a permit.

But St. Pierre's business partner David Koskoff, who is also an attorney, sued the town in March, claiming that the ordinance was illegal, and the owners won their lawsuit.

"Now we're just fulfilling," St. Pierre said. "It's a completely voluntary activity. It's not like I'm paying people to do karaoke with clothing optional."

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What happens if you get hair in your juice?

Nude juice bar survives legal challenges

(SALEM, S.D.) — The mix of nude dancers, orange juice and black-and-white independent films wasn't in Bob Rieger's original business plan. But it has helped his Racehorses Gentlemen's Club survive amid the cornfields of McCook County and fend off a two-year barrage of challenges from politicians and outraged members of Citizens Against Nude Juicebars and Pornography.

"I've been to court with them four times, and I beat them every time," Rieger says.

When the county denied Rieger a liquor license for a bar, he opened a strip club with a juice bar in 2003. When it served a stop order saying a commercial business could not operate in area zoned for agriculture, Rieger went to court and won.

And when 74 percent of the county's voters passed an anti-nudity ordinance in June, Rieger found a loophole that exempted movie theaters. After a two-week hiatus, the club re-emerged as Racehorses Gentlemen's Club and Adult Movie Theatre and has been operating ever since.

Now the county is drawing up a new ordinance that would require his dancers to wear pasties and G-strings. And a state senator plans to push for a similar state law.

"At this point, it's harassment," Rieger says. "They're really picking on me."

McCook County State's Attorney Roger Gerlach says the proposed ordinance is not an attempt to put him out of business: "As long as they have some opaque clothing over the crucial parts of the human body, they can dance all they want."

In the meantime, customers continue paying $10 cover actually called an all-day movie ticket to watch strippers dance. Patrons can sit next to the stage or get a private dance in a small room off to the side. They can also grab a stool at the juice bar and order a $3 soft drink or a $4 juice or power drink.

When Rieger retooled his business as a movie theater, he said he would feature independent, artsy R-rated films. During a recent visit, though, hardcore fare was playing in the club's 17-seat theater.

The 15-member Citizens Against Nude Juicebars and Pornography has organized protests outside the club and filmed patrons in the parking lot to discourage them from entering. Salem hair salon owner Maxine Pulse, the group's co-founder, says she saw men drinking and urinating in the parking lot and dancers coming to the door nude.

"There's a line between right and wrong," Pulse says. "And it seems like anymore nowadays that line has got all jumbled up."

After Rieger seized on a loophole in the law that allows nudity in such places movie theaters, health clubs and college art classes, Pulse's group dropped its protests for fear of being hit with harassment charges.

Republican state Sen. Clarence Kooistra plans to take the fight to the next level and propose a state law that would Rieger's dancers to cover up.

TASTEY

The other 2 new motley songs sound a lot more like Motley.

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What is wrong with Mick and Axl?

Food Ideas Rejected by McDonald's

20> McGristle

19> Salmon McNella

18> Tom & Roseanne "Together Forever" Value Meal

17> Shirley McLean Burger

16> McMenudo

15> Filet o' Gefilte Fish

14> Way Too Damn Happy Meal

13> Lion King Hairball Happy Meal

12> Them Ain't Nuggets!

11> McKitty Sandwich

10> Boutrous Boutrous Burger

9> Rocky Mountain McOysters

8> McSpleen

7> The Depressed Meal

6> Filet O' Flesh

5> McShrooms

4> Bob Barker's Happy Pants Meal

3> McTonya Club Sandwich

2> Grumpy Meal, Dopey Meal, and Sneezy Meal

and the #1 Food Idea Rejected by McDonald's...

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WELCOME TO THE SATRIANI SITE.

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Stephen King Quotes

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

I work until beer o'clock.

I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.

If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

cuthbert1776

I was close.

Stewart was born here, but Gordon was not. But Gordon did move here.

I always thought (wrongly) that Gordon was a native Hoosier.

cuthbert1776

Shit – 96 trillion unreads

this'll take a while.. lol..

"I want my songs to tell a story, and so the song needs to progress and ideally keep repetitiveness to a minimum.”

k.. here goes:

repeating yourself is in fact a good thing.. But repeating with variations.. I’ll get more into all that later

1st – songs that tell a story..
well there are a few different ways to go about this sort of thing
one way is to attack the song from a purely musical stand-point
this means themes and variations, developing and evolving musical ideas, mixing themes
so in this sense you the composer will explore musical ideas and re-spin them within a composition

the other approach is purely ‘story driven’ – for this you thing of a subject and write the outline of events that make a story.. then group the events together to establish logical sections of related subject material [and therefore similar ‘vibe’]..
then I play the story through in my mind and listen for the sound track
that is actually how I wrote everything on Shredz apart from Virtus Junxit [which is pure composition]

another tip – never stick to the same method of writing or you’ll get predictable

so.. onto ‘repeating yourself’ – one of the things that’ll really dove-tail together a large work is a re-occurring theme or two..
the theme don’t have to be long.. just distinctive.
you don’t have to play it the same way every time either..
maybe the first time you hear it it’s a really high lead guitar part.. later in the music it may be played in the bass..
alter it’s timing, note lengths, key, enharmonically shift it, play it with different instruments, alter some of the notes here and there, change the beat that the theme starts on to alter the syncopation, play it with different instruments, hide it within a chord progression.. the possibilities are endless..
the main thing is that although it’s different, there is something a little familiar about it.. and that sort of threads things together..
you can obviously introduce as many themes as you wish.. and get them to interact too which creates new material..

one of the great aspects to this kind of writing is that you don’t have to write the music in it’s logical sequence.. i.e. from the start..
you can write as the mood takes because the piece divided into well defined sections
so you feel all soppy and mushy, so you can start with the soft bit in the middle
another day you can come up with the big heavy part at the end
at this point the music is definitely ‘blocky’ like lots of little unrelated songs
when you get to thread parts together with ‘bridges’ and ‘transitions’ this is where the themes really kick in
don’t be too surprised either if entire sections end up getting re-works to some degree or even re-written completely – this is normal and part of the evolution of the piece as a whole

the main thing is to plan out the track well first with notes about the vibe, pace, note density, stability etc and all the things that best reflect the subject material..

Hi @ all and hi Mister Satriani :)

I would be very glad if you could make it one day to Europe. Hopefully near Germany or Austria or even better to Switzerland, because the G3-Jam at your Birthday wasn’t enough ^^. I hope you’ll be pleased about my birthday greetings to you. (Man with Poster ---> "Happy Birthday Joe") ^^

clarky..."attack the song from a purely musical stand-point this means themes and variations, developing and evolving musical ideas, mixing themes" At the moment, this is thebest description of how i'm going about the song i'm trying to write at the moment. But also linking a theme to it for a title of the song and maybe name different sections, like Dream Theater's a change of seasons, its one song but split into 7 other songs, each with a name. obviously though my song isn't going to be over 20 minutes..more like about 5 or 6..which is fine for me at the moment.

changing ways i write...yeah..maybe thats why most of my stuff i have written, like little bits of rythmn and that can be linked together in some way. Not sure how to change how i write...maybe it'll come with practise...instead of going the way i would, think of other ways instead, what would be different.

Michelle - after a while, diabetes becomes more of an inconvenince than anything else... you just have to keep it under control..

me and Slansh on stage together??... now that'd be quite a party... I'd look forward to that one...

Shredz a concept album?? funny... I've never thought of it that way, but you are deffinitely right.. it is..

but all the credit has to go to Slansh.. he wrote it, mixed it, and played all the really hard parts..
I sorta tagged along.. lmao...

LucySorets...a picture is worth a thousand words, but will it get me across the desert, ocean & mountains?...lol

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cuth...you mean TASTEY, or Katie Melua?....rotflmao

Mister Joe Satriani,